Nailless horseshoe.



FRITZ EGGER, OF SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND.

NAILLESS HORSESHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1906.

Application filed September 30, 1905. Serial No. 280,809.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRITZ EGGER, a citizen of the Swiss Republic, and a resident of S010- thurn, Switzerland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rivetless and Nailless Horseshoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The object of the present invention is a rivetless and nailless horseshoe provided with an adjustable and easily-detachable springfastener having a wire strap with a certain spring action in its longitudinal direction and intended to secure the shoe firmly and adjustably to the hoof.

Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings show by way of example an embodiment of the invention.

The horseshoe a is provided with two side clips 6, which prevent a side shifting of the shoe. The toe-clip b, the lower end of which enters a dovetailed tapered notch 0, cut in the shoe, has the form of a toothed ratchet-piece d. The two spring heel-clips q, secured to the shoe in the same manner as the toe-clip bthat is to say, by means of a similar dovetail connectionare bent to the front at the top (in the direction of the horn tubes) and provided with locking-teeth 7c. The wire strap has in its sides spirally-wound parts g, in tended to act longitudinally like an ordinary spiral spring. Both ends of the wire strap are bent a little and engage at i (or at i) wit the heel-clips q. At the front the wire strap is hooked in the teeth of the ratchet-piece (1, upon which it is drawn down. The spring tension in the wire strap f, which can be in creased or diminished, according to the strap being hooked higher or lower in the toothed ratchet-piece d, produces a tight engagement of the ratched toe-clip b d, as well as of the two spring heel-clips g, with the hoof. Through this kind of fastening the hoof is prevented from slipping at the front and at the back, the shoe being tightlypressed from below against the hoof, so that the horseshoe can shifter slip in neither direction.

What I claim is 1. In a rivetless and nailless horseshoe, the combination with the shoe of a ratched toe clip, two toothed spring heel-clips and a fastening wire strap adapted to be hooked by its front portion in the ratched toe-clip and having in its sides spirally-wound parts intended to give rise to a spring action, so as to firmly and adjustably secure the shoe to the hoof, substantially as described.

I 2. In a rivetless and nailless horseshoe, the combination with the shoe of a ratched toe clip entering a dovetailed tapered notch of the shoe, two toothed spring heel-clips secured to the latter by means of a similar clove- .tail connection and a fastening wire strap adapted to be hooked by its front portion in the ratched toe-clip and having in its sides spirally-wound parts intended to give rise to a spring action, so as to firmly and adjustably secure the shoe to the hoof, substantially as described.

3. In a rivetless and nailless horseshoe, the combination with the shoe of a ratched toeclip entering a dovetailed tapered notch of the shoe, two toothed spring heel-clips secured to the latter by means of a similar dovetail connection and a fastening wire strap adapted to be hooked by its front portion in the ratched toe-clip and having in its sides spirally-wound parts intended to give rise to a spring action, so as to firmly and adjustably secure the shoe to the hoof, the said wire strap having its ends engaged with the aforesaid two heel-clips, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in-the presence of two subscribing witnesses. FRITZ EGGER. Witnesses:

GEo. GIEEORD, AMAND BRAUN. 

